Nick Brown
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Happily retired rolling stock engineer. Still playing trains, just not getting paid for it anymore. DCFC South Stand STH
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@thehistoryguy
My wife's boss was at primary school in the next valley that day - she still hears the voices shouting outside in the street and the sound of people running down the road to help. NCB heads should have rolled - and survivors and families were treated appallingly.
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Before Eurostar, if you lived oop North & wanted to go by train to Amsterdam you caught this - 1E87, the 1515 Manchester Piccadilly - Harwich Parkeston Quay for the overnight ferry to Hoek van Holland. Seen here at Sheffield on Friday 29 May 1981 with Stratford's 47150 in charge.
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OTD 42 years ago. A sad day but what a privilege it was to have been a witness to (and play a very small part in) the BR Deltic era.
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#ThrowbackThursday
I can't remember ever seeing a rake of freight wagons looking this clean. Looking like something from a 1970's Hornby catalogue, 47185 heads west through P4 at Reading on Thursday 28th May 1981. Anyone know what those wagons are & where they were going?
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Another
#MidWeekPeak
offering - no numbers or details of workings, but a nice atmospheric shot of 2 x Peaks with overnight mail/parcels trains in the bay platforms at the south end of York, possibly in March 1981.
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I know it's only idling, but I've still got goosebumps.....must be an age thing!
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It's 29th December 1981 & 55017 has only 2 more days left in service as it arrives at Grantham with 1A08, the 0807 York - Kings Cross. The bitterly cold & gloomy weather is one of my clearest memories of those last few hours of the Deltic era in BR service.
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Taken during a visit to BREL Crewe Works on 10th May 1980, final tests & snagging are in progress on 40009 after its last intermediate repair. The gangway bellows has gone from the nose end but the doors are still there.
#FortiesOnFriday
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Sadly I didn't record what train 45050 was hauling under the lights at York on 9th March 1981, but I suspect it would be operated by an XC Voyager now. Some of us would ask where it all went wrong?😀
#MidWeekPeak
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Another find from the loft archive - unidentified Class 47 + HST, Kings Cross, Friday 11th December 1981.
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Merry Christmas everybody! 🎅🎄🎁
(for those who want to know - 55013 at Kings Cross, 11th December 1981 on 1N14, 1403 to Newcastle, about to depart about 2h late. And yes it was well worth the wait. 🔥🔥🔥)
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I really wish I'd taken more shots of everyday stuff like this - one of Neville Hill's finest, an unknown Class 108 at York on 9th March 1981. Always record the everyday railway folks, one day it'll be history. BTW that's 47541 calling with 1M79, the 1730 Newcastle - Liverpool.
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Another find from the loft archive - 55021 has just over 48 hours left in service as it approaches Selby in appropriately gloomy winter conditions with 1E10, the 0910 Dundee - Kings X on 29/12/1981. I can't remember why I was that far back down the train, bit of a fail there😀
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Does anyone remember when the NRM restored Mallard to mainline condition? Seen here at Derby during a water stop whilst working the 'South Yorkshire Pullman' from York to Marylebone on 4th October 1986. Love the 'F1 pitstop' ambience of this one😀
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Today's dodgy old slide from the loft archive - a pre-rebuild Manchester Victoria with 25284 & 25173 adding a light haze of diesel exhaust to the atmosphere on Friday 29th May 1981.
#Raturday
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Another everyday scene from Manchester Victoria on Friday 29th May 1981 - 40139 passes Wall Side pilot 25173. Not much in this view survives today - photograph the everyday, folks - one day it'll be history.
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From a time when summer Saturday trains to the seaside had proper traction....in this case it's a grubby 55019 waiting for the 'off' from York with 1A37, the 0847 Bridlington - Kings Cross on 22nd August 1981.
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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Seeing as it's
#FortiesOnFriday
day, here's one from a typical 1980's summer Saturday. 40076 arriving at York on 22nd August 1981 with the 0840 Manchester Vic - Scarborough, complete with the obligatory window-hangers.
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It's
#WaybackWednesday
and today's finds in the loft might be appreciated by the
#Class50
fans out there. I can practically feel the platform throbbing under my feet as 50012's driver awaits he 'right away' from Oxford on 6/4/82 with 1V48, the 1438 Birmingham New St - Paddington.
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Good morning everybody, hope you're all having a great
#MidWeekPeak
day. Today's offering is this nocturnal study of 46036 and its collection of steam pipe leaks waiting to depart from York with 1M41, the 2208 mail to Shrewsbury on Friday 26th February 1982.
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Is it
#MidWeekPeak
day already? This one's an unidentified 45/1 about to depart Derby for St Pancras, sometime around the end of December in 1981.
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A grey 1st September 1981 at the south end of Crewe station sees 25175 arriving with DM&EE Test Car 6 and a rake of Mk3 sleepers and Mk1's in tow. Presumably the sleepers were on test, anyone know why?
#Raturday
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This morning's finds from the loft archive - 3 shots from a weather-disrupted (but still functioning) Peterborough, Friday 11th December 1981:
47403 on 1A08, 0807 York - KX + Cl. 111 DMU;
Unknown Cl. 31 with a parcels train?;
47568 on 1M72, 0717 Harwich PQ - Manchester Picc.
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I'm not sure what 31209 was doing with this rake of HAA wagons at Derby on 31st October 1981 (apart from going very slowly - such work was usually the preserve a Type 4 loco or 2x Cl. 20's) but it makes for a nostalgic picture.
#ThirtyOnesOnThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
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Last scan from the loft archive for today - survivor 40012, minus nameplates, stands in the middle road between Platforms 1 & 2 at Sheffield on Wednesday 2/9/1981.
#FortiesOnFriday
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Today's 2nd
#MidWeekPeak
from the loft archive is the last one, 46056, seen here at Sheffield on 13th April 1982 with 1E63, the 1135 Poole - Newcastle, always a good shout for non-ETH traction. The relief train preceding it was even better but I'm saving that pic for tomorrow 😉
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Morning all, today's first offering from the loft archive shows 45131 waiting departure time in P6 at St Pancras on Thursday 3rd June 1982, heading 1D54, the 1545 to Nottingham.
#MidWeekPeak
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I had no warning that this was coming (no internet back then!), so this shot had to be taken in a hurry - a very new 210001 passing Leamington Spa on what looks like a commissioning run on 26th July 1982. One of those blind alleys of rolling stock development.
#ThrowbackThursday
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This week's
#MidWeekPeak
is 46051 at York late in the evening of Friday 27th Feb 1981, sadly my notes didn't record the working. Loco, vans, DMU & centre roads all gone now, but we still have that magnificent roof. Celebrate the everyday folks, because one day it'll be history.
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BREL Doncaster Works, 27th February 1982 - the final Deltic gathering and the last public appearance of most of the fleet. Some of the unlucky ones - nos. 4, 5, 10 and 11.
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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Scanning the negs from the loft again & I thought this looked like an appropriately wintry shot. Turns out it was taken on 24th April 1981 - it's grim up north!😀
45 134 departing northwards from York, sadly I don't have any record of the working.
#MidWeekPeak
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Happy
#MidWeekPeak
day everybody - today's offering from the loft archive is 46036 awaiting departure from York on Friday 26th February 1981 with 1M41, the 2208 mail train to Shrewsbury.
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It's the 1st
#MidWeekPeak
day of 2024 and today's offering from the loft archive was taken at Derby on Monday 26th July 1982. 45118 is about to leave with 1C85, the 1903 to St Pancras while long-time Etches Park resident and loyal servant 08899 rests between jobs.
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Today's first
#MidWeekPeak
offering from the loft archive - a typical platform end scene at Birmingham New St on a 1980s Summer Saturday as the driver of 46056 awaits the off with 1V85, the 1000 Bradford Exchange - Paignton. Shout up if you recognise anyone 😀
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Once upon a time, nearly all summer Saturday trains crossing the Pennines en route to a holiday resort were entrusted to a Class 40.
On Saturday 24th July 1982, 40006 nears journey's end as it arrives at Llandudno Junction with 1M71, the 0900 York - Llandudno.
#FortiesOnFriday
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This might stir a few memories - a pre-rebuild Reading station with 50032 drawing admiring glances from a pair of spotters as it pulls into P4 with 1B02, the 1425 Paddington - Plymouth on Thursday 28th May 1981.
#FiftyFriday
#FiftiesOnFriday
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Further to the photo of 46056 on 1E63 posted yesterday, this was the preceding relief train (remember them, anyone?) - 1E57, 1127 Poole - Newcastle, headed by vacuum-only 37097, seen here at Sheffield on Tuesday 13/4/82. Do I get a 'phwoar'?
#ThirtySevensOnThursday
Today's 2nd
#MidWeekPeak
from the loft archive is the last one, 46056, seen here at Sheffield on 13th April 1982 with 1E63, the 1135 Poole - Newcastle, always a good shout for non-ETH traction. The relief train preceding it was even better but I'm saving that pic for tomorrow 😉
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It's the evening of 24th April 1982 in Derby and there's only just enough light left for a photo (1/60th, f2.8) of 25250 with a solitary GUV, ready to be attached to one of the night's mail trains. Not the best quality but - memories....
#Raturday
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Today's bit of 1980s nostalgia from the loft - occasionally I did point the camera at a square engine, in this case 47111 in P3 at Derby on 31/10/81, heading an unidentified special (anyone know what it was?). Plus a bonus HST in P1 and a slightly confused looking driver.
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Another slide from the loft archive, from the days when BR ran proper cross-country trains to Cardiff. This one shows 45122 at Sheffield on 13th April 1982 with 1E95, the 1145 Cardiff Central - Newcastle. Looks like a Class 114 DMU in P3 & a 108 on the centre road.
#MidWeekPeak
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Another
#FrontEndFriday
photo - this one is probably best described as 'businesslike'! The end is clearly nigh as what was to be one of the last active 76's, 76015 stands at the head of the line of locos outside Reddish depot on Friday 29th May 1981.
#Class76
#Woodhead
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Eastfield, Sunday morning 28th June 1981.
Which toy would you take out of the box?
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It's
#MidWeekPeak
day again so here's another pic from the loft archive - 46 026 (still carrying its nameplate) stops at York on Friday 26th February 1982, heading 1A40 the 2000 Newcastle - Kings Cross TPO.
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Nottingham on a sunny Saturday 11th September 1982 and 45038 stands ready to couple on to 1E16, the 1000 from St Pancras, which it will take forward to Sheffield.
#MidWeekPeak
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OTD in 1981. The countdown clock is ticking, but the punters at Grantham are too busy shivering to realise they're witnessing the end of the Deltic era as 55017 arrives with 1A08, the 0807 York - Kings Cross.
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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And God so loved the railway that he gave it 308 of his only begotten
#Class37
's so that they could go anywhere and do any job, anytime. Here are 37050 and 37109 on Liverpool St fuelling point on 3rd June 1982 - no gen on what they did next, unfortunately.
#ThirtySevensOnThursday
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Another photo from 1st September 1981, this time at Derby, where 25279 is assisting a failed Class 104 with 2G67, the 1715 Nottingham - Birmingham NS.
#Raturday
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More scans from the final Deltic gathering at BREL Doncaster, 27th February 1982 - a few more pictures of the unlucky ones, nos. 5, 7, 13 & 17.
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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If there's one thing I've learned from scanning my old slides, it's the importance of photographing the everyday - one day it'll be history. This is a pre-rebuild Manchester Victoria, 29/5/1981 - 47404 calls with 1E99, the 1305 Liverpool LS - York while 25173 waits between jobs.
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@MrTimDunn
@Moma
Magnificent. Can you imagine someone pitching that idea now?
'So we plan to dangle trains above a river, road traffic, and trolleybus wires and support them on massive steel structures, some of which will be built into the walls of residential buildings..'
Different world, eh?
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After 41 years as a full time member of the
#railwayfamily
I'm officially retiring today. Heartfelt thanks to the many, many railway people who have supported me along the way, it really has been an honour and a privilege to work with you all.
I hope I've made a difference.
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Good morning all, it's time for a
#MidWeekPeak
and today's find from the loft is 46004 on an Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway - Skegness Adex, pictured at Nottingham on 13th April 1982. Along with a car park full of gently rusting BL products.
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For anyone in need of cooling down today, maybe this'll help?
55013 'The Black Watch' doing its best to steam heat a rake of Mk. 1's prior to departing Kings Cross around 2 hrs late (due to adverse weather) with 1N14, the 1403 relief to Newcastle, Friday 11th December 1981.
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When the North's holiday trains looked like this. The driver of 40131 waits for the last passengers to leave 1M08, the 0752 ex-Leeds, before setting back to stable the empty stock in the sidings ready for its return trip, 1E82 the 1353 to York. Llandudno 24/7/82.
#FortiesOnFriday
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OTD in 1980 - Napier Nirvana.
No.5 @ Doncaster, 1L41 1005 KX - York
No.7 @ York, 1S87 1035 KX - Edinburgh
Nos. 22 & 9 (+ 47478 in last photo) @ York. 22 was taking 1E52 (0912 Dundee - KX) forward, 9 had just arrived on 1V93 (0950 Edinburgh - Plymouth).
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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Another
#ThrowbackThursday
find in the loft - I wonder if the Kodak Instamatic photo has survived the years? 50043 has the spotters' attention as it arrives at Paddington on 3/6/1982, standing in for an HST on 1A33, the 0925 ex-Plymouth. And a bonus unpainted C Stock train(?)
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How we used to travel to the seaside - 31143 with a decent load (at least 8 Mk. 1's) arrives at York with 1L18, the 0915 Chesterfield - Scarborough, on Saturday 22nd August 1981.
#ThirtyOnesOnThursday
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Where else could you get an all-day choice of Roarer, 50 or steam heat Peak haulage on a summer Saturday? 45014 stands at Birmingham New St with 1V86, 0932 Newcastle - Paignton on 11/9/1982, with 50006 (1V84 1136 Manchester- Newquay) and an unknown 85 for company.
#MidWeekPeak
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Its
#MidWeekPeak
time again! Today's relic from the loft is 45129 arriving at Sheffield on Friday 29th May 1981 with 1M86, the 1150 Glasgow Central - Nottingham. Still running via the G&SW & the S&C that summer, IIRC?
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OTD in 1981 - when depot permits were easy things to get hold of. We're at Eastfield and the ScR's finest are enjoying their Sunday rest.
#WaybackWednesday
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Today's dodgy old slide from the loft - Exeter St David's, Saturday 23/5/1981. 31401 on a stopper to Paignton, with 45061 heading the 0710 Leeds Penzance relief train. From a time when the railway was properly resourced to cater for bank holiday demand.
#MidWeekPeak
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We haven't had a
#WoodheadWednesday
for a while, have we? To put that right I offer another dodgy old relic from the loft, taken at Reddish depot on Friday 29/5/1981 while there were still a few active 76s. Seen here are (L-R) 76015, 053, 030 & 001 with 40191(?) in the distance.
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Today's first
#ThrowbackThursday
offering from the loft collection is 45150 arriving at Bristol Temple Meads on Saturday 1st June 1982 with 1O79, 1215 Cardiff Central - Portsmouth Harbour. At least 5 coaches plus a BG on a service that would at best be a 3-car Sprinter now.
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Just your average day in Penzance, 31st July 1987
L to R:
50 017
50 014, arrived on 2C68, 0545 ex-Barnstaple. Not sure how far it took those vans but it returned to Penzance to work the Up Sleeper that night.
50 013 with 2C84, 1203 to Plymouth.
#FiftiesOnFriday
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It's
#ThrowbackThursday
so here are the last couple of scans from a day at Carlisle, 20th March 1982:
45145, 87018 & 87025 arriving on 1M27, 1115 Glasgow C - Birmingham NS
Cross-Country 1980s style: 1975 Watford crash survivor 86209 on 1S61, 0811 Bristol TM - Glasgow/Edinburgh.
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Today's finds from the loft archive - Crewe, 1st September 1981:
25175 + DM&EE Test Car 6 + some Mk 3 sleepers
81012 with 1S55 1055 Kensington Olympia - Perth Motorail
86227 light engine
33005 with 1M84 1150 ex-Cardiff Central (?)
#WaybackWednesday
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OK so I'm a day late for
#MidWeekPeak
but it's
#ThrowbackThursday
so I thought I'd share this reminder of a time when us Provincials could rock up at St Pancras and not have to walk halfway to Luton to catch a train home.
45103, 1E49, 1600 to Sheffield, 3/6/1982.
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Today's
#ThrowbackThusday
pics are from an interlude at Birmingham International on 3rd April 1982. The 1st one is of 87017 calling with 1A60, the 1618 from New St - Euston.
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Proper loco-hauled train ✅
Mk 1 Corridor Composite with Commonwealth bogies✅
Bonus Class 87 & Roarer✅
Time machine please
(FTR: 33064, Crewe 24/7/82, 1V09, 1602 to Cardiff)
#ThirtyThreesOnThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
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Right, who's up for a bit of
#Roarer
mileage? 85018 arrives at Crewe on 1st September 1981 with 1M55, the 0740 Penzance - Liverpool Lime St, which it would have worked forward from Birmingham.
#ThrowbackThursday
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I've posted these 2 pics before, but now they've had a bit of a clean they look even better. Remember when every holiday train that crossed the Pennines had a Class 40 on the front? 16CSVT cornucopia, York 22/8/1981.
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And not forgetting the birthplace of railway preservation and Greatest Little Train in Wales that is the Talyllyn Railway.
#WalesOnRails
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This week's
#MidWeekPeak
includes a bonus
#Class50
😀
It's Saturday 18th September 1982 and the summer holiday train season is nearing its end. 45102 is about to escape from Mordor with 1V87, the 0915 Glasgow C - Paignton as 50005 arrives with 1M14, the 1250 ex-Paddington.
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BREL Doncaster, 12/9/1980 and more violation of the 'no photography' rule while management were on their lunch break😉😀. Full descriptions added to the images.
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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It's 31st July 1980, and a sneaky bit of lunchtime breaking of the 'no photography' rule sees 'vacuum only' 25 080 hooked up to the big kettle upstairs in the Test House at Derby Loco Works.
#Raturday
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IIRC 50013 'Agincourt' was the last 50 to be refurbished and outshopped in Rail Blue, as opposed to large logo blue. I'd just ridden behind it from Reading to Banbury, where this photo was taken on 6th April 1982 on 1M07, the 1350 Paddington - Liverpool.
#FiftiesOnFriday
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Another
#MidWeekPeak
- this time it's 45117 emerging from Kennaway Tunnel on Saturday 23rd May 1981 with 1S27, the 0722 Plymouth - Edinburgh which it worked to York.
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This will be my last photo of an HST in regular service in the Shire - 1V50 passing Breadsall this morning. I learned my trade from (& owe so much to) the engineers who designed this fleet - after 40+ years of service, I think they can be rightly proud. Job done ✅️.
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Next slide out of the box is this one of 40194 calling at Llandudno Junction on Saturday 24th July 1982 with 1D29, 1045 Manchester Vic - Holyhead. Another one in the seemingly endless procession of 40's to be enjoyed along the North Wales Coast in the early 80's.
#FortiesOnFriday
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Just in case anyone in rail Twitterland thinks battery EMUs are new tech - here's another from my ancient slide collection. 'Akku-wagen' 515 642 waiting for its next job at Braunschweig Hbf, 10/9/1986.
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Next
#FortiesOnFriday
photo from the loft is this shot of 40194 about to depart from Llandudno Junction on 24th July 1982 with 1D29, the 1045 Manchester Victoria - Holyhead.
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Oh to be at that front droplight....
55019 about to depart from York on 22nd August 1981 with 1A47, the 0847 Bridlington - Kings Cross. Sorry I don't have the number of the 08 but there was a Deltic in town, who'd have noticed a Gronk?😀
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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More summer Saturday Class 40 mileage for the bashers on the North Wales Coast - here's a bent but still battling 40131 at Chester with 1E82, the 1353 Llandudno - York on Saturday 24th July 1982.
#FortiesOnFriday
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When North Wales was the place to be on a Summer Saturday. A very slightly bent 40131 waits time at Llandudno on Saturday 27th July 1982 with 1E82, the 1353 to York, while the bashers take their positions at the windows in the leading coach.
#FortiesOnFriday
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And that was it - the XC HST era comes to an end. The 'Pines Express' passes Breadsall in appropriately gloomy lighting conditions this morning.
#xchstfarewell
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Another one from the loft archive - Dawlish Warren on 23rd May 1981 again, with 45019 heading the 0827 Cardiff - Penzance.
#MidWeekPeak
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I might've posted this one before, but it's not every 08 that carried a headboard like this one - 08762, seen here at Dundee on 1st July 1981. It's just been coupled on to the empty stock of 2L35, the 1044 from Glasgow Queen St (headed by 26027, for the record).
#ShunterSunday
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Pole position.
Oh to be at that front droplight....
55022 waiting to depart Retford with 1D00, the 0805 Kings Cross - Hull, Saturday 22/11/1980.
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
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Time for
#ThirtySevensOnThursday
- here's an immaculate 37061 outside the weigh house at Doncaster on 21/1/1981. Think it had at least an Intermediate overhaul, judging by the repaint? Static tests are in progress prior to a load run to Newcastle with the ex-LMS parcels van set.
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Another photo from Clapham Junction, taken on 3rd June 1982 - 73119 trundling out of the carriage sidings past a couple of suburban units (not sure whether they're EPB's or HAP's - anybody?). Note what passed for PPE back then😀
#FlashbackFriday
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My final
#FortiesOnFriday
offering for today - 40033 (+ bonus Class 108) during a stop at Sheffield on 13/4/82, while taking the empty vans from the previous night's Manchester - Cleethorpes newspaper train back to Red Bank.
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Ahh, a typical 1980's Dawlish scene. Happy holidaymakers waving to a Class 50-hauled train with a head sticking out of every droplight. Except that isn't a head protruding from the leading one!😀
No record of the working, but it's 50034 and the date was 23/5/81.
#FiftiesOnFriday
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This is what a Class 50 power unit (EE 16CSVT) looks like 'out of the box'. This one was being reassembled after overhaul at BREL Doncaster in Jan 1981. The turbocharger & intercooler on each corner of a gives it a nice symmetry (us engineers like that😀)
#FiftiesOnFriday
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Nottingham, 11th September 1982 and the bashers are making the most of the penultimate Saturday of holiday trains to Skegness for that year. 20141 and 072 are in charge of 1E85, the 0922 ex-Derby, one of three Class 20-hauled trains to the seaside that day.
#TwentiesOnTuesday
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Today's first
#MidWeekPeak
from the loft archive is this shot of 45136 & its rake of Mk 2c's passing Beeston on 28th July 1982 with 1D02, the 0646 St Pancras - Nottingham. The shutter speed wasn't quite fast enough to stop the motion blur but so what, it adds dynamism 😀.
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Inter-regional trains, 1982 style - a rail blue, pre-refurbishment 50007 calls at Leamington Spa on 26th July with 1M07, the 1450 Paddington Liverpool. As soon as it reached 25kV territory at Coventry it was replaced by 87005 for the run north.
#FiftiesOnFriday
#50Friday
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I can practically hear this now, although it was taken 42 years ago, almost to the day. 56054 takes a rake of empty HAA's past the site of Langley Mill station, heading for one of the pits further up the Erewash Valley, on 27th May 1981.
#MGRMonday
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OK so I'm a day early for
#FiftyFivesOnFriday
but it's
#ThrowbackThursday
- to a time when railway staff enjoyed their work. These carriage cleaners were certainly having a good day!
Kings Cross, 3/5/1980 - 55005 waiting for the stock forming 1L44, the 1605 to York.
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